As a Grand Junction native and local business owner, Kate cares deeply for our community and the people who call it home. As the owner, bookkeeper, and office manager of HBJ’s Grooming, she spends her days serving this city’s four-legged residents. Yet by night, she reads voraciously, and writes with just as much passion. As a reader from an early age, Kate has always loved fictional worlds. Now, she builds her own, hoping to blur the line between science fiction and fantasy with her current work-in-progress, Blackbird.
When she isn’t escaping to a far-flung future, Kate is a wife, mom, and dog-parent who loves to explore the natural wonders of the Grand Valley. An avid camper, fisher, and cross-country skier, she hopes to one day visit all 63 of America’s Great National Parks!
Though Kate is new to the Writer’s Forum, she is thrilled for the opportunity to both work with and learn from her fellow writers of the Western Slope.